Tag Archives: Christian Heresies

avoiding the Socinian conclusion

Private judgement. A heresy? Out of the unintelligible Jakob Boehme, a number of heretical mystics evolved their ideas into the heresy of English deism, a deism as the matrix of the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, but landing many in … Continue reading

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one day there time will surely come

Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading

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mercy mercy them: the H word

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading

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heresies: bonfires of the inanities

For in fact, when we look closely at the loose collection of historical heresies, there has been a continuity, though blurred, and hidden under a multiplicity of names, that has been fairly enduring over the centuries… For in fact, when … Continue reading

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heretics: each according to his own religion

Gottfried Arnold’s two volumes, Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics, published in 1699, which consisted of twenty-three hundred double-column folio pages , raised a storm that lasted a generation. And there were fewer heresies then than now. He … Continue reading

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